Articles by Shari Barbanel
Sweetbridge and Natural Partners Tackle Nutritional Supplement Transparency and Compliance With Blockchain Technology
Sweetbridge, a non-profit that aims to transform supply chain and logistics management with blockchain technology, has announced a strategic partnership with Arizona-based Natural Partners, a distributor and technology company supplying health care providers with nutritional supplements for their patients. The partnership will see Natural Partners pilot Sweetbridge’s blockchain technology on its health care practitioner service ...
New Link Between Gut Bacteria and Obesity
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new link between gut bacteria and obesity. They found that certain amino acids in our blood can be connected to both obesity and the composition of the gut microbiome. We know less about the significance of our gut bacteria than what many books and magazines on ...
Meredith Corporation and Bastyr Center For Natural Health Form Partnership
Meredith Corporation, the leading media and marketing company with national brands serving more than 110 million American women including 70 percent of all U.S. female Millennials, recently launched a pilot program with the Bastyr Center for Natural Health to bring natural health resources to employees at Meredith’s Seattle, WA offices. Meredith Corporation’s nationally recognized and ...
Maryland University of Integrative Health’s Online Health Promotion Program Ranked No. 1
Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) has announced that BestColleges.com recently named its Master of Science in Health Promotion program Best Online Master’s in Health Education. MUIH ranks No. 1 on the list of top online master’s in health education programs in the United States based on criteria including academic quality, affordability and online programming. ...
Balance Exercises May Help People With MS
A special program that involves balance and eye movement exercises may help people with multiple sclerosis (MS) with their balance problems and fatigue, according to a study published in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Balance problems and fatigue are common in MS and are tied to falls ...
True Health Launches Comprehensive Celiac Disease & Gluten Sensitivity Testing
True Health has announced that it is now offering comprehensive testing for celiac disease and gluten sensitivity. When medically necessary, this testing will provide clinicians useful diagnostics to determine the specific cause of symptoms reported as a gluten sensitivity. Despite an increasing awareness of celiac disease, the Celiac Disease Foundation states that approximately 80 percent ...
Breastfeeding Reduces Hypertension Risk, Study Says
A study published in the American Journal of Hypertension indicates that women who breastfeed more children, and for longer periods of time, are less likely to suffer from hypertension after they reach menopause. This is less true of obese women, however. Elevated blood pressure is the greatest single risk factor for disease and mortality. Evidence from epidemiologic ...
Vitamin D Supplements Could Ease Painful IBS Symptoms
Vitamin D supplements could help to ease painful irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms, a new study from the University of Sheffield has found. Scientists from the University’s Department of Oncology and Metabolism reviewed and integrated all available research on vitamin D and IBS—a condition that affects two in 10 people in the U.K. The study ...
IFM Confirms Amy R. Mack as CEO
The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) has named Amy R. Mack as IFM’s next chief executive officer (CEO), effective April 1, 2018. She succeeds Laurie Hofmann, MPH, who has been serving IFM in various Board and executive leadership roles since 2001. “I have had the pleasure of working side by side with Amy Mack in her current role ...
Bastyr and AOMA Discontinue Plans for Affiliation
In 2017, Bastyr University announced that AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine would join the school of Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine at Bastyr to become the AOMA Graduate School of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine at Bastyr. While mission aligned and mutually admired within the integrative health and medicine field, leadership of both Bastyr University and ...
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